Space Shuttle Discovery - Wikipedia Discovery performed both research and International Space Station (ISS) assembly missions, and also carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit among other satellites Discovery was the first operational shuttle to be retired, followed by Endeavour and then Atlantis
Space Shuttle Discovery - National Air and Space Museum Discovery was the third Space Shuttle orbiter to fly in space From 1984 to 2012, Discovery flew 39 Earth-orbital missions, spent a total of 365 days in space, and traveled almost 240 million km (150 million mi) —more than the other orbiters
40 Years Ago: STS-41D – First Flight of Space Shuttle Discovery Space shuttle Discovery, the third space-qualified orbiter in NASA’s fleet and named after several historical ships of exploration, incorporated manufacturing lessons learned from the first orbiters
NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery: A Journey Beyond Earth But it wasn’t just about the numbers Every one of those missions carried stories of daring experiments, cosmic firsts, and monumental milestones Let’s dive into the incredible journey of Discovery — a shuttle that didn’t just explore space, but made history every time it left the launch pad